Re: LC 475 partition table

2003-05-29 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Brad Boyer wrote: > The only ways I've ever heard of to fix > it are to stick it in a non-Mac machine and wipe the whole drive > to start over, Actually, wiping the first 512-byte block should be enough. Apple's HD setup does leave interesting stuff on-disk. I once had a disk which came prew

Re: LC 475 partition table

2003-05-09 Thread Ray Knight
On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 04:58, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to install woody on a Mac LC 475, with HDD upgraded to a 1.2G > Quantum from a PowerMac (so it's apple branded), 12 MB RAM, and with an > Asante NIC. Oh, and it reports no FPU, which I gather can cause problems, > but I do

Re: LC 475 partition table

2003-05-08 Thread Bryan Kattwinkel
on 5/8/03 4:44 AM, Brad Boyer wrote: >...or to plug in the drive after the boot is partially finished. What you can do is connect the scsi cable but leave the drive unpowered. Then boot the Mac, and start your formatting/partitioning program. Now apply power to the drive, tell the formatter to

Re: LC 475 partition table

2003-05-08 Thread Brad Boyer
On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 12:52:18AM -0400, Bryan Kattwinkel wrote: > Sometimes hard drives from PowerMacs have Apple disk drivers that are > PowerMac only and are difficult to downgrade into 68k compatibility. This is a tough problem. If you have a Mac formatted drive attached to a machine booting

Re: LC 475 partition table

2003-05-08 Thread Bryan Kattwinkel
on 5/7/03 4:58 AM, Richard Hector wrote: >I'm trying to install woody on a Mac LC 475, with HDD upgraded to a 1.2G >Quantum from a PowerMac (so it's apple branded), 12 MB RAM, and with an >Asante NIC. Oh, and it reports no FPU, which I gather can cause problems, >but I don't know if that includes

Re: LC 475 partition table

2003-05-07 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 01:05:58AM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 08:58:52PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > The problem I'm having is that whether I use the Apple tool (from System > > 7.1) or mac-fdisk from within the installation system, the kernel won't

Re: LC 475 partition table

2003-05-07 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 08:58:52PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > The problem I'm having is that whether I use the Apple tool (from System > 7.1) or mac-fdisk from within the installation system, the kernel won't > recognise the partition table properly. It thinks there is only one > p

LC 475 partition table

2003-05-07 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I'm trying to install woody on a Mac LC 475, with HDD upgraded to a 1.2G Quantum from a PowerMac (so it's apple branded), 12 MB RAM, and with an Asante NIC. Oh, and it reports no FPU, which I gather can cause problems, but I don't know if that includes this one. Can the CPU just be swapped